The Week in Review for January 14, 2008
All stock market averages fell last week, with the exception of the NYSE Healthcare Index and NASDAQ’s Insurance Index. The Dow Jones Average was off almost 194 points to close at 12606. The S&P 500 was off 11 points to 1401 and the NASDAQ Composite dropped 65 points to close at 2440. The market internals looked worse than these aggregates. The number of new lows (2,081) were a whopping 7-times the number of new highs (267). Down-volume on all exchanges was 25% more than up-volume and of the 8,333 issues traded on the three major stock exchanges, issues trading down…